The Not In Our Name movement was born after September 11 to strengthen and expand resistance to US militarism and war. The key issues that inform the movement are preventing war on the people of the world; stopping the disappearances and vicious attacks on Arab, Muslim and South Asian people in the US and stopping the destruction of civil, legal and political rights, including the very right to dissent, here in the US.

Up to 400,000 demonstrators joined a peace march through London on Saturday, according to organizers Stop the War coalition and the Muslim Association of Britain, who claimed the show of unity was one of the biggest protests of its kind.

Florida police have apologized for detaining three medical students two days after the anniversary of the World Trade Center attacks. On September 13 Ayman Gheith, Kambiz Butt and Omer Choudhary were driving through Georgia to Florida where they were scheduled to begin a six-week clinical training course at Larkin Community Hospital in Miami.

This week, the Guardian newspaper of London ran an article called Selective MEMRI, and it focuses on a Washington-based non-profit organization known as the Middle East Media Research Institute. The article was by Brian Whitaker and it begins:

“For some time now, I have been receiving small gifts from a generous institute in the United States. The gifts are high-quality translations of articles from Arabic newspapers, which the institute...

Six months after questioning former Army biological weapons scientist Steven Hatfill, the FBI finally searched his Maryland apartment last week. They were looking for evidence about the anthrax-laced letters that killed five people last fall.

FBI Director Robert Mueller announced yesterday that the FBI has placed a substantial number of people who may have ties to al-Qaeda under 24-hour surveillance. He said the bureau has been "pushed, really pushed" to track all the terror suspects. Mueller explained that a suspect could be someone who phoned a prominent terrorist overseas or someone who passes out pro-bin Laden literature.

FBI director Robert Mueller III expressed regret on Wednesday about the FBI headquarters’ handling of a memo from its Phoenix office about a large number of Arabs seeking training at a U.S. flight school.

A story by Gideon Levy in the Israeli newspaper, Ha’aretz, begins like this:

"For nearly three hours two Sundays ago, farmer Mohammed Abu Samra Zakarna sat in the vineyard he works, the bodies of his wife and daughter stretched out before him. For part of that time, his young son lay crying and dying next to them. Mohammed’s hands were tied behind his back, and his pants had been taken away at the order of the soldiers who had...

The massive assault on the city of Nablus last night is just the latest step in Israel’s methodical offensive against the Palestinians. Israeli forces have taken over six major West Bank towns and cities — Ramallah, Qalqiliya, Jenin, Tulkarem, Bethlehem, Nablus. The towns of Jericho and Hebron remain the last islands in Palestinian control. Thousands of Palestinians have been arrested, and countless others have been killed and...

Saudi Arabia’s Middle East peace initiative will top the agenda when Crown Prince Abdullah meets President Bush on April 25. The de facto Saudi leader’s peace initiative — which offers Israel normal ties with Arabs in exchange for a full withdrawal of Arab land occupied in 1967 — won full backing at last month’s Arab summit in Beirut.